In order to comprehensively and deeply promote safety education in primary and secondary schools, vigorously reduce the incidence of all kinds of casualty accidents, do a good job in safety protection for primary and secondary school students and promote their healthy growth, the State Education Commission, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Railways, the State Sports Commission and the Ministry of Health jointly issued a notice at the beginning of 1996, and decided to establish a national "safety education day" system for primary and secondary school students.

The injury caused by the lack of safety awareness of primary and secondary school students is now on the rise, which has become the main cause of abnormal death of primary and secondary school students. According to authoritative data, more than 500,000 students suffer accidental injuries every year in China, and accidental injuries have become the number one killer threatening students' life safety. According to the statistics of the education department, the number of abnormal deaths of primary and secondary school students in China is more than 654.38+00000 every year.

1March, 1996, seven ministries and commissions jointly issued a notice, deciding to establish a national safety education day system for primary and secondary school students from 1996, and deciding that Monday in the last week of March is the "safety education day" for primary and secondary school students every year, stipulating that all primary and secondary schools should carry out a safety education activity among all teachers and students.